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Scottish households needlessly waste GBP 1bn of food each year
The most detailed study of its kind has highlighted the £1 billion of food needlessly thrown away by Scottish households each year. This massive financial and environmental burden is described in a new report, The Food We Waste in Scotland, published today by WRAP Scotland (Waste & Resources Action Programme).
The report reveals that Scottish households throw out 570,000 tonnes of food and drink each year, most of which could have been avoided if it had been planned for, stored or prepared better. This is a loss to the average household of £430 every year. For families with children it is higher ... |
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`Cash for Clunkers` replaces 700,000 vehicles with more efficient models
The popular `Cash for Clunkers` program ended its brief run on August 25, and the program is estimated to have removed nearly 700,000 inefficient vehicles from U.S. roads. Officially known as the Car Allowance Rebate System (CARS), the program achieved greater fuel economy gains than originally expected, as consumers chose more fuel-efficient models than were required by the program. In fact, the average fuel economy of the traded-in vehicles, which were crushed, was 15.8 miles per gallon (mpg), while the average fuel economy of the newly purchased vehicles was 24.9 mpg. That`s a fuel economy ... |
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Following a successful roll out in the US, global food giant Kraft Foods is to launch an innovative new recycling scheme designed to encourage consumers ...
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- Wood waste prices could rise as supply declines, says WRAP`s wood waste report
Wood waste in the UK may be in decline, while demand is set to rise leading to price rises and wood shortages, according to a study by the Waste and Resources ...
- UK government gives new EfW the green light
The Government has given the green light to a new 60 MW biomass and energy from waste plant to be built on a disused site at Tilbury Docks, Essex.
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- Beverage carton maintains growth in recycling rates
Some 350.000 tonnes of beverage cartons were recycled in 2008, or over 13 billion in all. This represents a recycling rate of 33% in Europe (EU-27, Norway ...
- MHG`s mobile service takes biomass quality monitoring to the real-time era
The Finnish supplier of bioenergy ERP solutions, MHG Systems, has introduced an extension to their popular MHG Bioenergy ERP service. This new extension ...
- Lead poisoning cases on the rise in China
Over the last couple of years there have been several high profile cases of imported children’s products from China containing dangerous levels of lead. ...
- Recolight: Light bulb `recycling tsunami` in two years time
In two or three years time there will be a “light bulb recycling tsunami” for energy-saving light bulbs as consumers start to recycle them, according ...
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